War Poetry of the South

by Unknown

IX.

Then gird your brave Empress, O! Heroes, with flame
Flashed up from the sword-points that cover her breast,
She is guarded by Love, and enhaloed by Fame,
And never, base Foe! shall your footsteps be pressed
Where her dead Martyrs rest!

"Ye Men of Alabama!"

By John D. Phelan, of Montgomery, Ala.

Air--"Ye Mariners of England."